Autor: Tim Strehle

Tom White – „Disks have become tapes“: „In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk.“ (Via Nat Torkington at O’Reilly Radar.)

Simon Phipps – The Adoption-Led Market: „Traditionally, the process of acquiring software has involved a request for proposal from vendors against a customer specification. Vendors then make proposals, submit prototypes, contend for business. In smaller bids, an evaluation team considers trial versions, makes evaluations, makes proposals to management. Eventually software is selected and paid for.…

Charles Handy at Marketplace – Bigger isn’t always better for business: „If I were to visit a symphony orchestra and ask them about their growth plans for the future, how would they respond? They would talk about their plans to extend their repertoire and to bring their work to new audiences, not about increasing the…

Jon Udell – Ward Cunningham’s Visible Workings: „This isn’t just an innovative approach to software testing and workflow visualization. It’s also a radical statement about business process transparency. For most of us, most of the time, business systems are black boxes whose internal workings we can only discern in the outcomes of our (often painful)…

Jason Fried – Feeling the pulse with Queen Bee: „At the top of our Queen Bee admin screen we have a stream showing the latest activity across Basecamp, Backpack, Highrise, and Campfire. […] Everyone at 37signals has access to this stream of signups, upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations. It’s a great way to get a feel…

Stoyan Stefanov – Simultaneuos HTTP requests in PHP with cURL: „Using the curl_multi* family of cURL functions you can make those requests simultaneously. This way your app is as slow as the slowest request, as opposed to the sum of all requests. And that’s something.“

Bolinfest – Saved by xmpp4moz!: „I downloaded the SamePlace Suite Firefox extension, which is a small suite of applications built on top of xmpp4moz. I fired it up and discovered that it contained a nice Jabber client written in XUL with explicit support for Google Talk. The only remaining question was: how did it work?“

Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog – I will Get That Nobel Peace Prize Yet!: „The $100 laptops we keep hearing about will eventually give Internet access to even small villages. Imagine having a pen pal in some tiny African village. You learn that all they need is one of those foot-operated water pumps for…

Eugueny Kontsevoy – Web vs Desktop Nonsense: „If a web application does not really need to run inside the browser, why does everybody expect Microsoft to ship an online version of their popular Office suite in the fashion similar to Google Docs? Technically speaking, to release a viable web version of Office they may just…

Jason Fried at 37signals – Preview 3: Backpack Page Changes: „When you have multiple people contributing to a page it’s handy to know when and what changed since your last visit. We’ve made this really easy with the new Backpack. If you visit a page that changed since your last visit you’ll see a sticky…